Kirsten Powers: O’Reilly ‘Wasn’t All Bad’ But ‘There Were Problems Obviously’

EXCERPT:

POWERS: "I don’t think that Bill disrespects all women. I actually think he took me pretty seriously. I think he took Mary Katharine very seriously. And I think he took Margaret seriously. He also had other behavior that was problematic, the behavior I talked about, and he didn’t understand why that was offensive, you know, the 'Thank you for your blondeness.' What people want is they want a really easy story where Bill is rotten to the core and nothing good ever happens. That’s not the story. There are other things that were good about him. Mary Katharine and I were just talking about the fact that we were able to go on his show and really lay into him and argue with him in a way that a lot of hosts will not tolerate. So he wasn’t all bad, but there were problems, obviously. I think both things can be true."